very controversial for exploiting poor people they made the biggest loan in their history here a big coal fired power plant which was corrupt through hitachi and the local a.n.c. fundraising on and you know they learnt to apartheid they provided post apartheid macroeconomic advice which was highly neoliberal very very unfortunate record the i.m.f. as well they led to apartheid and then their first loan to the new government it was actually just before the new government came in in ninety three locked in the neoliberal conditions that are unpopular there are plenty of people in this country ready for a break from the i.m.f. and world bank just tell me why they call me his party in south africa back cyril ramaphosa rather than say the economic freedom fighters who obviously want much bigger break than even bricks maybe oh that's right the fed has said they're marxist leninist phenomena so are the friends for nontraditional the communist party comes from a slightly more soviet centered tradition because they had strong support from the also that union so often the phrase stalinist is use i think that may be unfair but

that means their tradition is often connected to the national liberation movement they are very tied in as actually were the economic freedom fighters before they had a break in two thousand and thirteen now the critical thing is the communist party knows that sauron of course who they backed the head of jacob zuma is coming from an extreme capitalist standpoint but i think that's better than the corruption riddled zuma with his control family called the gupta family now those guys are on the run they're literally being chased as we speak the communist party deserves some credit as is the congress of south african trade unions still the largest adoration still connected to the a.n.c. but they very clearly said there's no honeymoon for storm of course and the big test is when the finance minister delivers the budget which is next wednesday and in that budget moody's the big new york credit rating agency is anticipated to put very strong pressure to cut the budget deficit probably by raising the value added tax probably by cutting social grants and possibly by even breaking the promise of free tertiary. the education that zuma made just before he was. kicked out and

that's the dilemma the austerity that's coming down the pike with this high foreign debt very high interest rates much lower growth less than one percent anticipated this year and that means when you squeeze harder your possibility of a state driven bottom up economy also shrinks and it may be that rome of course is inadvertently gotten the team together especially with the credit rating agencies right over his shoulder that will dig in deeper into a hole by the time of the election next april may june when they have the next election for president he may really regret having gone the neoliberal route any possibility that the poverty created by new liberalism the ongoing austerity may mark a return to the sort of extreme violence advocated by nelson mandela where yes now mandela very specifically when he turned from the nonviolent mass struggle in the early sixty's was directing targeted sabotage against the facilities of oppression

what we've seen since the roughly fifteen twenty years of rising township protests where unfortunately many of the social activists in their communities have been so frustrated they've not only blockaded roads burned tires but they've taken on municipal buildings even burning libraries and schools these are tactics and they appear very violent period that the townships are burning but i think actually the real danger to the system will come when they link up and develop a bigger political agenda we'll see if that happens on the far left the economic freedom fighters south african federation a trade unions a united front or whether continues to be fragmented or sporadic and part of that will be whether cyril ramaphosa revives his old left wing heroic stance he was a great trade union leader and can put down these protests and promise and divide and conquer and that's a tradition of they and see they've done it well they may not be able to continue given the contradictions because of hadron thank you after the break. sixty is the day that the campaign for nuclear design. founded we speak to one of britain's

great just fine artists peter kent a lot about why his work if you will going to his asian is more relevant than ever and with london opening its doors in this season's fashion week iconic design a dame's on the roads suggests brooks it may be anything but fashionable poles of all coming up odd to have going underground. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to. the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a lawyer here i mean your list with video pretty mean the neighbor loses out on you schooling you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in this to do over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure

a secure and prosperous and democratic. society of all the seasons and he practices the pressure oppressive measures being deployed against the palestinian people have to deal with a. set of colonialism the theft of all of man and the many many. stating things that some of his undoing of course the chemicals that's a. rising. welcome back fashion as always arguably been political while channel gucci and boss proved their right wing good at jules why is help broader in the west would have signaled the imperialism and while old fashioned except the tour finds itself under scrutiny over labor practices this week's london fashion week contends with a britain about to depending on your brakes it expand into the wider world all retreat into. homespun isolationism joining me now is james andrea rhodes who was

dressed everyone from princess diana and jackie onassis to elizabeth taylor and freddie mercury she opened this year's london fashion week festival on the twenty second of february so honored thanks so much for coming on so i first of all thank you just tell me about the festival which is slightly separate a lot of fashion will i think is to give a lovely continuation so that no i mean everyone does the fashion way to go global and then everyone rushes off just to give it give us a little more atmosphere here in london i think it's a great idea ok well i just said the couture norgate insult after a bad labor practices thanks to the seamstress unions and so on can mass fashion really ever be good for worker rights alone the environment it's a very difficult subject because if you're talking about mass fashion you're always going to be talking about cutting costs and how you make things less expensive i mean i think worldwide we've always all got to think about how we can make out

clothes last longer not always because of the what's happening to the atmosphere but why should we always have to have new new new if you've been seeing things like this arguably for maybe not quite as long as prince charles has been saying similar things that people street which have your that initiative happen before the run of blows a disaster in bangladesh implicating a prime or madeleine l'engle monsoon war which killed or injured three thousand six hundred people i mean i went over there with people trade interviewed some of the people who'd actually being in that building it was quite terrifying really that whole experience i mean i don't know what we can do about it because people are still going to want to buy this economic uprise one sustainable for mass fashion that could be it could destroy itself what do you think about with the brics it may spell. challenging times for fashion coming from this guy i can't bear to think that it i did know. i kept hoping that they'd say well we made a mistake let's do it now. the vote in the mean time that's what's happened and

we'll have to wait and see what happens i mean what does it mean for london fashion designers or fashion designers or the rest don't yet know do way i mean we're all going to continue to do sawin is possible that it's going to be more difficult for those of us the going to show in italy or from us and it might be a bit easier if you're sharing in the rest of the world but i really don't feel we can predict anything we have to now wait and see what really does happen but it could be a bright or is johnson that future of london beijing shanghai i had a choice anyway i do really i mean considering there was a joy old british people and you know virtual sadness already of a brother. but i mean we we all were all going to keep deciding where or going to kick designing somehow and i do think this country attracts talent breeds talent and we have wonderful art colleges that i think there are people still going to

come here and we're just going to have to wait and see what really happens in reality even if it could be a russian plot the referendum or i know you spoke in the past about whether the russians got trump elected. well it might be masking because you've reported he got a bust of putin let him repeat it oh i do i've got bill espoused a fact i did a show we did in russia and one of my russian friends came out and gave me this wonderful money thoughts of putin and we painted him up and he'd so he's golden all sorts of bright colors and he sits in my studio he's very happy that we have to he doesn't live that has not yet. what is it that fashion associates with politics i mean like i said in the intro there about how when chanelle bounce iago's about fascism in spain the real seller or support of the left in paris. was as it were the left what is it about fashion and well i mean at the moment in the fashion textile museum that i. founded we've just opened an exhibition on statement

t. shirts so we've got wonderful vivienne westwood one mommy breasts and all the different statements so i think you've got the fashion that i was of course exactly and you're going to have them making their statements and that's what some people want to wear and then i've got mine that are a different kind of statement that i wear and i should just that when it comes to grow it's in the course of training in fashion any concerns that you've heard about increasing costs putting people off from entering the fashion world given that britain is famous also for working class fashion designers i think this is going to be room for everyone i mean i just think that what's going to really happen is instead of things being bought fashion you're going to find that there might be more and more small things in communities one hopes that instead of always being focused on london or scotland or island you're going to have small individual communities aren't necessarily making both fashion but making is this statement of

their own i think that's a possibility too even the things associated now in the street arguably if you're in just for inflation you can buy and throw away. so i find it all terribly sad thinking that people will buy and throw away i hope it will be more like bar i get tired of it every work or passes on them is on the roads thank you pleasure. well it certainly fashionable in nato nations now to express just pray at the state of international relations the doomsday clock is now closer to nuclear armageddon than it's ever been arguably in part because donald trump's finger is poised over the red button that not only controls billions of dollars of u.s. nuclear weaponry but britain's as well sixty years ago today the campaign for nuclear disarmament was founded and the images of arguments put forth in its early years are arguably just as relevant as they were then deputy editor sebastian baca

went to speak to c.n.d. as general secretary kate hudson and artist peter cannot who has been working with the campaign for nuclear disarmament for nearly forty years we know. about nuclear weapons because real soon in hiroshima suffering the horror of. yet we've got to imagine that in our own environment we've got to imagine it as what could happen across the world unless we do something about it. well we say that c.n.d. is one of britain's most enduring mass movements it was founded in one nine hundred fifty eight in the midst of absolutely enormous public concern about nuclear weapons so the first demonstration took place in one nine hundred fifty eight the first mass meeting which founded c.n.d.

took place on the seventeenth of february nine hundred fifty eight so sixty years ago today the first meeting had about five thousand people attending it and from then on from strength to strength hundreds of thousands of people became. evolved over the next few years demonstrations protests protests and basis sit downs in westminster you name it that was taking place i saw it working you see andy i think it was seventy nine and it was when cruise missiles it was announced that they were going to come to greenham common and most were in a couple. went to see andy and this was in seventy nine they were a very small organization i remember a time in the room i think you know. and. everyone was just haven't been chairs people just sitting on the floor of a port case when i was tiny as an artist what i didn't want to see in my studio you

know waiting for the muse to descend i wanted to actually involved in things so the first one i did was the broken missile with the c.n.d. symbol and i and they were made very crudely i actually went to hamlet which is the big toy shop and they seem to have a guided missile department for ten year olds and so i bought some plastic missiles and then smash them up with a hama and then photograph them so the actual original is crude which i live and then that was used by seeing the. posters at the time. we had the big marches in the beginning of the eighty's suddenly seeing the escalated it suddenly had quarter of a million members. norma's demonstrations. cruise missiles. in the arrival of cruise missiles was the turning point. for sandy in terms of

people's involvement today our government saying that they wanted to replace trident nuclear weapons system our nuclear weapon system vos costs so massive popular opposition to that the obama. majority of people would rather spend that money on their own health on social care education jobs homes and so on rather than spending it on weapons of mass destruction it was very shocking for everyone i think to see last week the report that a homeless person who'd died just in the proximity of the houses of parliament from cold sleeping rough in the street there's no there's no rational explanation i think for all wouldn't really decent people which is the overwhelming majority of people here and elsewhere it's just inconceivable that people would choose people in power would choose to spend our hard taxpayers' money on weapons of mass destruction that can kill millions of people rather than spending it on ensuring

people's needs are met with a pit that people in the twenty first century should dari on the streets of london close to parliament it's it's just unbelievable we need media reorientation of our national priorities and i believe the people as a whole the majority of the people share those common values with us this is a normal human concern value it's the government south of step it's the political elite that's out of step the government didn't actually want anyone to see the realities of it they didn't want nuclear weapons to be connected to the horrors of hiroshima which. iran knew about where they were they wanted to sort of make nuclear weapons were possible they were. thinking of something that's. something that's completely. turned into something that's every day that's what i've always been trying to town to with that's what cindy is

trying to counter to this sense that we can live with these things and it's quite so have them. you know it is. going to explode all over the. program with a couple of years ago. you know we still got we've got this. madness of the word spending a. two hundred thirty billion on this reconditioning trident. each each missiles equal to thirty eight russia's i mean the madness of nuclear weapons gets more and more intense now with trump saying that we're going to make use of nuclear weapons and joking about the sizes but in all of this you know you just can't believe it because nuclear weapons the minute they start going to blow up the world and they're in the hands of complete crazy well then all crazy that power

hungry maniacs. so the imagery that i started by making in the eighty's is still as relevant and it's good that it's being used again but it's horrific and needs to be used again. in many ways that we still have to use his image and a new image that we still have to carry on sixty years old but the dangers are there the danger. increasing him becoming grace so we will continue to work with pate and to work with the hundreds of thousands of other many dedicated people across britain our partners internationally will carry on working together until nuclear weapons are finally abolished. one of britain's greatest cannot and c.n.d. general secretary kate hudson talking to going on the ground deputy had just about your package there and that's it for the show we're back on monday when we go to iraq to save the children office to ask about u.k. u.s.

airstrikes are affecting their humanitarian work today jill that he does pressure mean you will see on monday hundred five years to the day suffragettes fighting for female equality formed the house of u.k. chalk cervix jacka david lloyd george. apply to many clubs over the years so i know the gang and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the shaper money killed in and around us and spending children twenty million of them flying. it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy my great so what chance for. me it's going to.

palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos i'm in bill fit to finish it to do it long before you like it this isn't my cup of tea is going to have no phil saviano maybe a bit of yeah old shot without a doubt. the only palestinians is who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think this is about those ruined who were on the commission did not only could give us. and not design office knowledge to how to display any of the most of which they had i'm going to continue muslims you know do more commandments also don't piss off. what is described in the west as a russian invasion of crimea is

a fact the presence of russian soldiers in crimea can you clarify that and us discuss all about they could have to go to a barely spoke all of the quote but the most of the most go for the could and. as long ago as eighteen zero four sevastopol the naval base became the main military port of the russian empire on the black sea. during the second world war the heroic defense of sevastopol lasted almost a year and took hundreds of thousands of lives. therefore the naval base in crimea has a legacy of historical pride for the russian black sea fleet as well as being of huge strategic importance. those of us alive back then remember when there were soviet missiles put into cuba how frightened americans were and how angry and how we almost went to

a nuclear confrontation over having weapons of that kind of destruction placed that close to the united states. just so if the united states considers cuba to be in its backyard. then crimea plays at russia's doorstep. the consequences of a u.s. seizure of the face or a nato base which internationally. but almost a sum up a stimulus and buzzing and sure it is natural. you have taught me to. put you on with that. was three and zero in less assuring us not just a quick practical thing at issue. yes no opinion it's. so it's not just in the north it users in tunis about it we. know in a system that with the old me the only leader on that has got to show us if you will or. it was a piece of the school board. just him up i want to get there but only you know

a buzz. but they're both saying no doubt on the phone sex amongst the when doesn't it seem easy it takes to make. a state but the national system. unless you mean it's not. supposed to and think that if we act we would so to respond. to me because you knew seemed up and you know look at clint you just you know and i guess those. years that you play in the in the lead you disappear you know the same souce of them. up in the back of the in atlanta still a good little news and when you see what i pay for a bison you can get on the net and you can. die i am concerned about the expansion of nato nato has expanded into thirteen countries up to the borders of russia thirteen countries at the time what we're doing up. shit way not. these they do in the midst of them what she.

did in early spring of two thousand and fourteen eastern ukraine was also buzzing with protests against the new authorities in kiev this region with the population close to russia geographically and culturally feared that the ultra right leanings of the newly formed government would bring meal nationalism to their lands. and they have their reasons. the status of the russian language in ukraine has been a stumbling block for many years implementing russian nasa second state language was one of the main campaign promises of president bush in a full day in two thousand and twelve the government passed a law making it the second official language in the southern and eastern parts of ukraine the areas where the russian population speaking. makes up a majority ukrainian nationalist groups initiated massive protests opposing the law

and observing viewer might see some familiar faces there on a flight on. one of our last. on february twenty third two thousand and fourteen the very next day after the regime change the new government voted for in a no meant of the official status of the russian language and even though later this decision was vetoed by the acting president alexander turchynov it still sent a message and a powerful one this alarmed the russian speaking cities of eastern ukraine and people took to the streets to show their disagreement. in response don it's conducted their own demonstrations when the two parties would meet it was always tense and eventually it led to tragedy. one person died and over fifty people were wounded in clashes during a pro russian march protesting the new government in kiev. on april

sixth the crimean scenario began repeating eastern ukraine where protesters seized government buildings. and the next day april seventh they proclaimed don't yet see people's republic kiev replied by announcing the beginning of an anti-terrorist operation in eastern ukraine. by that time the international media was screaming about a russian invasion in ukraine russia could now be on the verge of invading ukraine but strong words state only in the media the ukrainian authorities never announced a war like situation why i.m.f. cannot give money to countries and gauge an ongoing war that's roboto shan't go over as they can only think you when you go to your show will go to geneva too much money was already invested in you. rain to stop halfway i've invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure

a secure and prosperous and democratic train. you mccarthy writes in a city you know well it will slowly new democracy just what is it will most of the work across filters are just north of that some of them but obviously the funds had to keep coming and the conflict had to keep going. or and more bloody and deadly. earnest. as parties from both sides were using more sophisticated and lethal weapons. that's why the. daughter focus was. in this field of. oil natural when no particular source though not all of them one. of them busts. through a new deal yet you know that's really kind of a prelude to. the

world seemed too busy welcoming this new democracy in kiev. to notice what was being done as it spread its wings over the country. many in southern ukraine had been viewing the revolution with concern. i and an anti mind on movement formed in the city of odessa in early january two thousand and fourteen the protesters set up their camp in front of the trade union house a building which would soon become a monument to a massacre of its own it's difficult to overestimate the importance of odessa it is strategically located on the black sea and it's ukraine's largest seaport it's not surprising that ukraine's new authorities were watching the situation unfolding there with growing alarm. more and more of odessa as people were joining the anti my don movement at the same time as events in eastern ukraine were heating up. the

new ukrainian government didn't have the power to wage war on too many fronts if odessa were to join the growing uprising in the eastern regions it would seriously complicate the situation. this rebellion had to be extinguished immediately and at any cost and that cost was high. on may second two thousand and fourteen soccer fans flocked to the center of odessa city for the ukrainian championship match surprisingly a great number of these fans who descended into odessa just the night before also turned out to be fighters from the my don self defense units along with members of radical organizations from all parts of ukraine that these. books. these families asked armed and shouting nationalist mottos began disturbances in the center of the city as they marched to the end time i don tent in camp where

they attacked the end time mind on protesters sought shelter in the trade union house but it was a track down supporters started throwing molotov cocktails into the building until it was engulfed in flames. people burned to death inside or trying to escape jumped from windows. how low a fire station was less than a mile away it took almost half an hour for firefighters to arrive when they finally did the damage had been done. but here's an intriguing fact just a few days before those dreadful events a messenger from my don andriy pair o. b. made a visit to odessa it's an interesting coincidence that some of the people he met with in odessa were seen at the scene that fateful day.

but not everyone was mourning.